IE7 promo page — I was going to read some Penny Arcade, but Robert Scoble invoked me. Jeremy points out that Google had an IE7 promo page that looked remarkably similar to a Yahoo! IE7 promo page. — I can only speak for me personally on this. If Jeremy looked into it and says that …

Yahoo's "Project Fraternity" Docs Leaked — Rumors about the possible acquisition of Facebook, usually with Yahoo as buyer, have been around for most of this year. Not that Yahoo or Facebook have asked for this attention, but the media is getting antsy. Robert Young put it best last week …

RIM's Legal Strategy Over Samsung's BlackJack Is A Bust — from the would-you-like-to-buy-some-insurance?&n bsp; dept — Research in Motion (RIM) is no stranger to silly intellectual property lawsuits. A few years back they started suing lots of other companies over patents they held on wireless email devices.

RIM sues Samsung over BlackJack name — Research In Motion is suing Samsung, claiming that the name of the company's new BlackJack smart phone is too similar to that of RIM's own BlackBerry devices. — The suit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Setting The Record Straight — As part of one of Microsoft's on-going lawsuits, a piece of email that I sent to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates recently became public. It was a rant encouraging a change to the way we were building Windows at the time. In the email, I made a comment for effect …

digg users are getting paid—just not by digg — Update: If you know of someone doing this let me know and get a C-Note. — Update2: The first tip is in, and *if* it is correct someone paid off the number five digg user this week. — I know these reports have been going around …

2006 Web Technology Trends — It's December already and so it's about that time to reflect on what has happened in Web Technology during 2006 - and ponder what 2007 may bring. Over the next few weeks Read/WriteWeb is going to publish some in-depth posts analyzing the trends and new products we've seen …

GWT 1.3 Release Candidate is 100% Open Source — Today is quite a milestone for Google Web Toolkit: with the GWT 1.3 Release Candidate, our team is very happy to announce that all of GWT is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. There's a lot to say, but let's start with our mission:

Welcome To Search Engine Land! — It's official. Search Engine Land has now formally launched. I know, I know — we've been posting for over a week here. But now our new design is (mostly) in place, so it's time to declare ourselves fully operational.

Google's copyright fix — Barely two months ago pundits were predicting a litigation explosion for Google and its new YouTube video-sharing unit. But look what's happening instead. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) — YouTube might just be the best thing that ever happened to old media.

Gotuit SceneMaker Lets Users Tag And Cut Online Video — Gotuit will launch a social video tagging service on Tuesday that allows users to cut and tag any online video from any source. Gotuit is a video host for online video, mobile video, and cable TV. But unless you're YouTube …

By Some Measures, Blogging May Be Peaking — At two separate events over the past week I expressed that blogging may be peaking. Now before you run to the phone booth to call your editor, I don't mean that it has peaked in influence. Hardly. But if you read the tea leaves behind some key statistics …